ABOUT ME

I am Georges Geoffroy KUATE KUATE. I am Cameroonian and I live in Cameroon. French is my native language, but I also speak English, a little bit of Spanish and German and two dialects from Cameroon. I have an academic background in economy but my passion for the environment drove me in the field of climate change. I am currently working with the country office which is in charge of designing the national strategy of the Reduction of Emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) process. My experience in the REDD process made me understand that we will not succeed in tackling climate change, especially the emissions from the forest sector, without responding appropriately to some fundamental questions like the one of consumption and production. Furthermore, addressing the issue of consumption and production will generate other benefits like food security, education, raising awareness, jobs… fight against poverty in general. Since we are living today in a world where everything is connected i.e. the production of cocoa in the south will be driven by the need in the north, we need to have a global view when trying to address an issue to give us the maximum chance to succeed. In that sense, UNLEASH represents a unique and amazing opportunity to have people (young people) from all the corner of the world, to have experts with world class experience put all together in a single LAB to address SDGs. Cameroon is the locomotive of Central Africa and Africa in miniature. By these times that all the eyes are directed towards Africa, Cameroon is a perfect Lab to test new paradigms which lessons can then be easily spread to many other part of the world. That is way my experience with Cameroon makes me a unique candidate to participate to UNLEASH. So I hope that Cameroon will be selected as a pilot country to implement the certainly great action plan for sustainable consumption and production that we will develop during UNLEASH this summer.

UNLEASH Lab

Global innovation lab creating disruptive solutions for the UN's SDGs

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Georges G. Kuate Kuate

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UNLEASH Lab

Global innovation lab creating disruptive solutions for the UN's SDGs

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